We blog these things for the few
This is a moving and sad blog post from Carla over at ‘More Books and Things‘, looking at Christian blogging and the battle against false teaching within Christendom, which I liken to ’swimming in the sewer’. I’ve only just discovered this blog via Vee over at the Living Journey blog, but will ensure that I follow this from now on.
If you have stumbled onto this blog and are not a Christian, get yourself a hot drink, pull up a comfy chair and then tuck into the following article written by one of the best in the business:- All Of Grace by Charles Spurgeon[.....]
No, we post-modern Christians would rather read a book to learn about who God is than sludge through the Bible. Isn’t that right? Just take a look at your local Christian book store and wander over to that best seller section. See that fiction book up there? Yes, that book. Do you know its author just got an award for his book, even though he openly denied the penal sacrificial atonement of Jesus Christ on the cross in a recent interview (transcript is here)? Doesn’t that make this nice, popular author (who is speaking in churches across the land spreading his nice fabricated false fable) a false teacher?
So how do we combat today’s false prophets and authors and speakers (who the Bible calls ministers of Satan)? Every Christian should be able to spot them and point them out and avoid them, but they can’t because they are not spending time in God’s Word (I mean studying, not doing a Lectio Divina). And so this is why some unworthy sinners saved by grace are called upon by God to warn His people today, because He is merciful and just. Even so, God said that the people who love listening to the false prophets will not listen to God’s truth, even when He sends it to them.
So why would any person in their right mind spend three hours of their much needed beauty sleep posting a well researched article with a dozen live links, all previously searched out during long hours of burning the midnight oil, to warn Christians about false teaching when maybe 30 of them will skim through it and nod their heads in agreement, 30 might quickly browse the headline and decide it’s not bad enough news to bother reading, another 30 will politely disagree, yawn and move on to a more interesting website, and 9 more may read it, shake their head in disgust, and leave a very nasty comment? Here is why – we who blog these things blog for the few; the remnant, for that one person to whom God is speaking, who may read the truth, be convicted, will not harden their heart, and will have the guts to come out of the popular deception.
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